North Carolina Newspapers

Our Job Is to Save tjggjg Dollars Wat Bonds L\\ S-f- Every Pay Day VOLUME XIV C. A. Ha rris Honored At Council Scout Meeting At Graham Person District Gains Two Firsts At Gathering i I Speaker Is Dr. I. G. j Greer, Os Thomasville, Well-Known In Roxboro. j I i C. A. Harris, of this City, past j president of Person Scout' dis-i trict and for many years an ac-1 tive leader in Cherokee Council J affairs, is t|o serve for this year! as a vice president of Cherokee Council, his election to office oc- j cuxring at the annual Cherokee! dinner meeting held Thursday, night at Graham. Honors gained by Person dis- j trict included first place in ad-j vancement and in camping. Dis-, trict President' J. S. Merritt, who was accompanied by C. A. Har ris, D. Clyde Sfwartz and Thom as J. Shaw, Jr., representatives,' presented to Cherokee Execu tive E. Pierce Bruce, a check for flctal Person contribution to the 1943 budget. Chosen as a National Council representative was George W. Kane, of Roxboro. < Speaker was Dr. I. G. Greer, of Thomasville, Superintendent of North Carolina Baptist or phanages, who had as his topic the “Priority of Youth”,, an ex position of obligations due to ytcuth from* older citizens and a plea for cooperation in making the world that youth will have to live in a better one. Silver Beaver award went to Ernest Thompson, of Graham, Scoutmaster; attendance award was won by Rsldsville. Eagle badge award was to Joe Jarosz. Scoutmaster’s key was given to C. A. Cates and thirty year pin, presented by W. E. Vaughan .oyd, of Winston-Salem, went to Lon G. Turner, of Burlington. Re-elected as Cherokee presi dent was Holland McSwain, of Yanceyville. Program features included a skit by Troop 50, cf Burlington, and a Cubbing dis play by Pack 3 of the, same City. I Total attendance at the meeting was 216 and serving food pre-l pared by the Canteen Group, of! Graham, were Girl Scouts. Invocation was by the Rev. I Chester Alexander. Dr. Robert) Long, of Roxbopo, who was urn-! able to attend, was to have giv en the benediction. Person dele gation was cut from ten to four because of travel restrictions. Place of next meeting was not announced. , | I Jesse Davis, Jr., Thanks Church For Gift Sent i ! I Corp. Jesse Davis, Jr., who was sent to Ireland several months ago and is now in for eign service at an unnamed post, recently reeived from Roxborto First Baptist church a Christ mas gift that was much appre ciated. He writes his mother, “It was the nicest present I ever got, l and I mean it.” He says he is in I good health, afcskfc her not to 1 worry, mentions his brother, ■ Wayne, and says, “I’m coming : back.” PERSON TIMES COUNTY PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND THURSDAY ROXBORO, N. C., SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 1943 Private Hicks Strips For Ball Playing Roxboro Boy, Who Is Somewhere Where It Is Hot, Also Likes To Read Books. Pvt. Willie B. Hicks, who lived in Roxboro before he entered the U. S. Army and is now in foreign service in a land where “they are pulling oranges off the trees”, celebrated New Year’s, day by doing two things: he played baseball “stripped to the waist”, and sat down and wrote a letter to staff members of the Person County Public Library. Mrs. Margaret L. Howard and Mrs. A. B. Buchanan, the staff members, are saving the letter for Miss Ernestine Grafton, tri county librarian for Person, Orange and Chatham counties, who will be in Roxboro this week Her her January period of Person residence, j They are all rather proud •of Pvt. Willie- Hicks. He has writ ten them before, but this New Year letter is “sorter” special i and fact that it came by air mail is sure indication that Willie re members them 'and their work and the, library with real appre ciation. » When. Hicks was in Roxboro he used to go there and read and borrow fc|ooks, and when he found out he was going to the Army he became interested in technical subjects expected to be of help in the Army. And he is still at it, the reading. The sun may be “hot, the mountains green and the nights cool” where he is, but he has just finished, “Tombstone”, a “his torical work by Burns”, and he wants to- read, “Lee, the Ameri can, Lieutenant’s”, and a lighter work, “Strange Woman.” Maybe, he reaches up to a tree and shakes a coeanut down, pr pulls an orange and strips and J peels it, between books; he re- I members the Person Library, 1 anyway ,and sends good wishes, hoping that next year the world will be at peace andl he can come back for a “brouse a rpund”. ■■ Gill And Currin To Be Speakers At First Baptist Dr. Everett Gill of Wake For est will occupy the pulpit at First Baptist church on Sunday morning at the eleven o’clock hour. For many years Dr. Gill was a missionary and director of all Southern Baptist work in Eur ope. He also is the. author of sev eral books, and is a very inter esting speaker. On Sunday evening at the worship hour the Rev. J. B. Cur- Tin will bring the message. A cordial invitation s extend ed to the public to attend these services. The Rev. W. F. West, pastor of Roxboro First Baptist church, who has been ill for searly two weeks, went to Duke hospital Thursday and will remain there for several days. CALL MEETING All members of the Roxboro Country Club are requested to be at the court house in Rox boro, Monday night, January 11th at 7:30 p. m. This meeting is very impor- i tant and all members are urg- j ed to be present. Your golf course is at stake. | J. S. MERRITT, Pres. j Roxboro Country Club. | NOTE TO PARENTS j DO NOT TELL TOO j MUCH ABOUT BOY Censorship Office, Wash ington, Requests Fami lies And Relatives Os Men In Service To Keep Information. WASHINGTON Jan. 9. On battle fronts every day men risk their lives to discover the loca- j tion and strength of the military | units of the enemy. Yet at home : too many of us are presenting 1 the enemy with information of the same military value, the Os- i fice of Censorship says in a statement. This is the information which | newspapers and individuals are asked not to tell the enemy: Do not fell the names of ships upon which sailors serve. Do not tell the troop units in which soldiers serve icversleas. There is no objection to reveal ing that Pvt. John Jones is in Australia or that Seaman Tom Brown saw action in the Atlan tic but there is military infor mation which endangers the lives of American fighting men in stating that Pvt. John Jones, “Company C, 600th Infantry,” is in Australia, or Seaman Tom Brown, “Aboard the U. S. S. Wisconsin,” is in the Atlantic. Bushy Fork PTA To Have Two Meetings In One C. E. Mabe, of the faculty, was speaker Thursday night' at Bushy Fork PTA meeting, which was presided over by the president, Mrs. Byrd Long. Mabe’s theme was, “Our School, a Safeguard for Democracy.” Because of the gasoline short age the February and March meetings will be combined in one session to be hield in March. Sug gestion of this arrangement was made by Mrs. E. P. Warren and was accepted after brief discus sion. Along The Way With the Editor (Several days ago O. Hi Winstead of Slemora went Goose hunting down in Eastern Carolina. While he was in the blind the geese came over. O. H. cracked dowb three times and no meat' fell. One goose in particular was the oris that he wanted ! but that goose had ns idea of being so dumb as to let this hunt er kill him. But here’s what happened. The goose missed 1 th'e gun fire and flew into a tree where he broke his neck and Mr. Winstead had a gcose dinner several days later. Sam Merritt has had a bit of hard luck. The gas rationing has him behind the eight ball and he doesn’t feel so good about it. For Christmas his wife gave him a brand new golf bag. Boy', that thing looks good and he is very anxious to try it out. Nlcw that pleasure driving is out he has no way of getting to the golf course and the bag is at his house looking like a million dollars. I haven’t heard a word from Charles Wood in about two months. As you know he is' in training wAh the navy at Har vard and he must be working rather hard. If the navy can make Charles work, then it is very much worth while. Thomas Cites Rulings For Pleasure Use ! I Official Mesage Con firms Previously Pub ; lished Reports. Should Be Few Cars Out Today I | Philip L. Thomas, chairman of j the Person War Price and Ra | tioning Board, today said that he j received yesterday frfcm E. H. ! Schellenburg, of Raleigh, State Mileage Rationing officer, a telegraphic message relative to; “pleasure driving.” The order, j similar to orders issued in other j communities where gasoline I shortage is acute, is now in es- j feet as of last Thursday, Jan. 7. j Further petroleum shortages! on the eastern seaboard demand drastic measures tb reduce gaso j line consumption and the Schel- I lenburg message, which follows ,is an explanation of conditions | under which motorists may or i may not drive their passenger i automobiles. The message, which is official, says: Passenger automobiles in gas ; Cline shortage area may be used only for occupational and family I or personal necessity driving. I Such driving is to include I shopping, attendance at religious! i services, procuring medical at- j ! tention, visiting the sick, attend- j | ing funerals or attending meet lings' directly related To'the oc j cupation or prfcfession of the ap- I plicant or necessary to the pub-1 1 lie welfare or war effort, or! ; driving to meet an emergency! j involving a threat of life, health! | or property. j Such driving is not to include i going to places of amusement, 'recreation or entertainment, or social calls, 'sightseeing, touring, vacation travel. Violations to be subject to can cellation of gasoline rations', I state, county and municipal law enforcement officers or local war price and rationing bjeards vv'ho may take action to cut off or re duce ration. Exceedingly critical fuel oil situation necessitates further Te j duction allowable ration all pre j mises other than residential i i l ! Harry Puckett Gets Promotion i Assistant Plant Supermten -1 dent of the Burlington Times is ! Harry Puckett, formerly of Rox ! boro. He was at one time con -1 netted with Person County I Times. The Burlington pifrmo- I tion was announced yesterday. | TWO MORE WILL ASSIST WOODS WITH PROGRAM Flem D. Long And j Nurse Mills To Help ) Woods With Paralysis Drive Opening This , Week. ’ W. Wallace Woods, of Rox boro, general chairman of the Person and Roxboro committee for tenth annual celebration ofj the President’s birthday for \ benefit of the National Founda tion for Infantile Paralysis, to day said that County chairman is Flem. D. Long and that chair man for Negro citizens is Nurse ] Mills, of the Person Health De-! partment staff. Campaign this year begins) Jan. 15 and will continue thro-, ugh Jan.} 30, the President’s birthday. New feature of the drive is tio be distribution of coin envelope cards with spaces for twenty dimes, the cards to be j filled, identified with the name of the sender and Roxboro, Per-) son County, N. C., address, andj returned to Mr. Woods, or mail ed direct to President Roosevelt at the White House, Washington. To be placed in banks, stores and other buildings are larger j coin collectors and cooperation j : of churches, schools and other, j groups will be sought. In Rox- j ; bjero there, will be no bingo par- j j ties and no President’s ball, but | ! concentration will be on the . collection of contributions by the means previously indicated. As 1 j in the past, fifty percent of all j i contributions sent in will be j | used in Person County and Rox j bolt, with the remainder going j to National Headquarters of the j Foundation. j Publicity assistants here are j Thomas J. Shaw, Jr., of the j Times, and T. C. Wagstaff, of the j Courier. Work of Carrying on the j fight against infantile paralysis | was never more important than j it is today and ‘full cooperation i from citizens here is expected, i said Mr. Woods. ’j ' - | Coleman King Has )' Wreck On Train Tracks Near Home Coleman C.. King, young Rox borlo business man, had his auto ! mobile damaged here Friday when it was struck by a small motor driven car on the Norfolk and Western tracks near his home. King reported that a 1 freight was passing as he drove •.up to the tracks, that a trainman on it signalled for him to go for ward after the freight passed and that apparently the train | man failed 'to see another train I approaching. | King, himself, did not see the) second train until the collision | occurred. Damage to his car was slight. j D. W. Ledbetter’s j Brother Hurt In ! _ j African Ffght Frank Ledbetter, of States-) ville, brother of D. W. Ledbetter,! of Roxboro, and son of Mrs. i William Ledbetter, of Statesville,! was seriously wounded in action ! in Africa, December 2, according! to information received by Mrs. Ledbetter in Statesville from the ■ War Department. D. W. Ledbetter fcday said j that his brother entered the.; Army under Selective Service in New York City about two years ago. Military Police To Assist Supervison of Servicemen Here Taylor Gives Milk Grades For Roxboro [\, . _ v, . . ", ; 'i,-, AH Grades Are A, But Some Defects Are Or j ; Have Been Corrected. j j Sanitarian Winston B. Taylor, i today submitted reports on dair-; ' ies in Roxboro, all of those re-! ported upon coming in Grade A j classification as required by law. ! Inspections were made for■, 1 City Milk and Ice cfcmpany, | operated by Floyd 1 L. Peaden j I and formerly known as Roxboro : Dairy Products; for Elko Dairy, 1 managed by George Paylor for, Mrs. E. B. Foushee, and for| Richland Dairy of V. O. Blalock. | Inspection points included but- 1 ; ter fat content, bacteria count, | general cleanliness, milking) !’quarters, flies and manure, tests ' ‘ for Bang's disease, tuberculosis, •etc.,"and while not all dairies: j were up on all points, general excellence merited the A cassifi- j ! cation required in Roxboro. i All grades submitted are in | accordance with rigid specifica- j J tions of the United States Public ! Health milk ordinance and cover .) a period fer the past several j months. State law in North Carolina , requires that all hotels, cases , j restaurants, etc.,' shall serve milk ,1 in the original containers so , | that name and grade of the pro ., ducer may be seen by guests and ! * patrons. The law applies both to ( j sweet milk and butter milk. j RALEIGH Jan. 9. “Our de j termination not to relax, but rather to strengthen, our efforts V to keep milk-borne diseases at | a minimum appears to be fully j justified in the light of reports j coming from Britain,” Dr. Carl »j V. Reynolds, State Health Offi | eer. points out. “In the current issue of Time,” -1 he continued, “appear figures - j which are nothing short of a r | larming. According to the best I estimates, 40 percent of Britain’s : 13,500,000 dairy cows are infected > | with bovine tuberculosis and un- II safe milk is blamed for a rise of :j 45 percent in deaths of British 1 1 children under ten years of age ■ | from tuberculosis. These deaths [ ] are attributed to indiscriminate j I ■ mixing, or lowering the required I i' standards, of milk. ! “In happy contrast, only five! j tenths of one per cent of dairy j cows in the United ISitates are estimated to be infected with bo- J vine überculcsis. The figure will j j not run even that high in North) j (Continued on back page) | Womble Will Be ! Olive Hill PTA Speaker Thursday ; Olive Hill P. T„ A. will' meet in the school auditorium at 8 P. M.. Thursday, Jan. 14th. Rev. Rufus J. WJcmble, newly elected Secretary of the Person County Ministerial a&sociation, I •will speak on the subject, “The ], Schools, A Safeguard’ For Demo- 1 cracy.” i. All members and friends are j j urged to attend. > j jjggs NUMBER 28 Now On Hand With Approval Os City Chief Will Frequent Cases And Public Places Visited By Service Men. Military policemen, two or more in number, are now sta tioned in Roxboro, with head quarters at City Hall Fire sta tion. It is understood that the men are here with full cooperation and approval of Rlcxboro Police Chief George C. Robinson and Police Commissioner Philip L. i Thcmas and that their coming j has also approval of the Board: ! of City demmissioners. The military police will work ! with City policemen in all mat i ters and will assist with preser , vation of order in various cases ! and night spots frequented by I soldiers and service men, parti . cularly on week-ends. • Plan for the military police ! here was marked out by Major Diaz, of Camp Butner, who | came here fler conferences with Chief Robinson, Commissioner '.Thomas and City Manager Blox ' am. j It is understood that City po lice have also been given author -5 ity to make any and all arrests : among service men when cir >! cumstances warrant such arrests. • j Numbers of men from Camp 1 . Butner, Fort Bragg, Camp Pick >; ett and other stations have re ! cently been coming to Roxboro ■ and while no pronounced disor '! ders have occurred, the sending ' of military police is regarded as 3 a precautionary measure. . 1 j City officials want it clearly ': understood, However, that' soldi -3 ers and sailors and marines are ' welcomed in Roxboro and that ' | order to be maintained is sought for in the interests of all ! including private citizens. 3 Persons desiring to communi ' ] cate with the military police ‘ here may do sio through Roxboro 5 j Police Chief Robinson. The men *i first arrived here yesterday. ;j . !i Macon County .! i; Teacher Gets | Leader’s Award E. J. Whitmire, teacher of agriculture in the Franklin high ! school, Macon County, has been j selected as the Master Teacher jcf Vocational Agriculture in North Carolina for 1942, an nounced Roy H. Thomas, State Supervisor of Vocational Agri culture of the State Department of Public Instruction, yesterday. I The coveted honor awarded to Whitmire is based upon prepara tion for instruction, the formul ation of comprehensive teaching plans, community activities, the enrollment of his department, supervised practice, the promo tion of the purposes of the Fu ture Farmers of America, pro fessional improvement, the phy sical equipment of his depart ment, farm shop work, and the filing of concise and accurate re ports regarding his instructional program.